Death is one of the most emotional events that human beings must endure and process and conjures a range of potential feelings, from sadness to frustration to relief. Saying goodbye to loved ones is a difficult process. Historically, those losses are marked in some way, to be remembered. Sometimes people’s bodies are buried in a cemetery, and a stone is erected, detailing the most salient aspects of their lives. Other times, the body is cremated and the remains placed in an urn. These ashes can be placed on a mantle, to be present daily at home or they can be brought someplace special and released unto the earth. The creation of a Living Legacy Forest is still another option by which to honour and perpetuate life.
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What Is Mornington Green?
Have you ever considered that you might be able to be a tree after death? Mornington Green is a place where people’s cremated remains are treated in a way allows them to become part of a soil system of a tree. As the seedlings grow, the tree is planted and grows as it normally will. Of course, these trees must be in an area that is protected from logging and other potential dangers, and so they are planted within the property of Mornington Green.
Are Human Ashes Conducive to the Growing Cycle?
Human ashes contain chemicals that are harmful to soil and disrupt the biological balance of a landscape. There is a technology that can detoxify human ashes and change the chemical makeup of those ashes so that they can become a productive kind of soil, which then integrates with a seedling in a way in which energy is exchanged and new life grows.
How Do You Create a Cremated Tree Urn?
Cremated urn trees are simply biodegradable urns, which hold the treated human ashes along with the seedlings of a tree. The ashes help the seedlings to grow. The urn is then put into the ground, at which point, as the urn dissolves, the tree continues its growth cycle, eventually growing into its recognisable self.
The urn is not equipped to hold all of the ashes, so you could obtain multiple urns that could grow together or be separated amongst different family properties. You might keep a traditional urn in the home with some of the ashes in it, while outside the cremated urn slowly but surely grows into a beautiful, thriving tree. You could create a memorial garden on premises by planting the cremated tree urn and surrounding it with other beautiful plants and flowers.
What Kind of Trees Are Good Choices?
Different trees have different characteristics, much like people. Over time, certain trees have become known to communicate particular attributes. A Tulip Magnolia is said to communicate elegance, wisdom and compassion. The Cherry Blossom communicates optimism with its annual blossoming of double-pink flowers, which bloom in early spring. The Flowering Crab Apple is delicate and has a beautiful fragrance, and its blossoms in late spring. An Ornamental Flowering Pear Tree is recognised for resilience and hopefulness. The Gingko is a tenacious and hopeful tree whose leaves strike beautiful golden hues in the autumn, while the English Oak, which also blossoms in autumn, conveys noble, strong and intuitive features.
Can you think of somebody that you love that is full of joy, elegance, optimism, compassion or any other happy trait? Chances are, there is a tree that communicates that very trait, and so might be a perfect choice for your departed. There are many types of trees to plant in memory of someone.
Why Are Cremated Urn Trees a Great Choice?
The world is not getting any bigger. By entrusting your loved one’s ashes to the cremated urn tree, you’re ensuring that they will not be soon forgotten. You’re also helping a planet that is struggling with the malignant effects of climate change by planting trees, which is a powerful tool that can help the planet to heal. You’re also, in a manner of speaking, bringing them back unto life, and every time you visit them you will see the natural progress of new life unfolding.
Cremated urn trees are a singular method to remember and to honour those who’ve passed. You can take comfort in recognising that their spirit exists, in some form, in the appealing tree that you’ve chosen for them.
